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Drahthaardogs

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181. I grew up on 69,000 acres out west

Fri Feb 16, 2018, 07:31 PM

Feb 2018

And lived in Alaska for a decade. I hunted hard, on my own, and lived in the bush for weeks at a time.

I 've siwashed for an elk with a tarp multiple times and a have been charged by a grizzly.

I never paid a guide. I'm a hard core SOB, as were the guys I grew up with.

I'm sorry your experiences are shooting deer from a tree stand 20 minutes from town. Others grew up differently.

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Why would ANYONE need or have an AR-15 rifle? [View all] Kajun Gal Feb 2018 OP

gun humping cowards need their toys Skittles Feb 2018 #1

"Gun humping cowards" Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #8

there's really nothing funny about it Skittles Feb 2018 #24

+1 dalton99a Feb 2018 #170

GHC johnmont Feb 2018 #57

.22 caliber dicks. dchill Feb 2018 #78

+1 TNLib Feb 2018 #143

They don't and I have 10 guns myself and no AR-15s nt doc03 Feb 2018 #2

The rifle itself isn't an issue. It's the magazine capacity. Kaleva Feb 2018 #3

If there were no rifle there would be no magazine wasupaloopa Feb 2018 #31

The rifle wouldn't be an issue if the mag was changed to a integrated type Kaleva Feb 2018 #37

If there were no bullets, then the AR15 would be safe. dchill Feb 2018 #79

If I understand you correctly then killing at a little slower pace would be ok. Scruffy1 Feb 2018 #100

Bolt action and lever action are somewhat slower and I'm fine with them. Kaleva Feb 2018 #111

It's the most popular long rifle in the US, as a category. X_Digger Feb 2018 #4

I do Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #10

Why do you kill coyotes? panader0 Feb 2018 #168

Only when necessary, Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #174

I have hunted everything from antelope in Wyoming to Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #34

5.56mm is too small for bears. Adrahil Feb 2018 #40

I have three B&C mulies to my name, one lifetime two for that year Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #45

Well, you live where the big guns are. Adrahil Feb 2018 #49

Plenty get it done with one Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #176

I grew up on 69,000 acres out west Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #181

Sorry, but no Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #182

Uh huh. Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #185

With a simple upper swap, the AR can do 300 whisper, 6.5 grendel, or 6.8 rem. X_Digger Feb 2018 #42

Let me know when you go hunt Russian boar with a .223 Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #47

Google wild pigs and .223 Adrahil Feb 2018 #52

Google Drahthaar and Russian boar Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #55

Moving goal posts. Adrahil Feb 2018 #58

Come on. It's dishonest to say they are popular hunting rifles Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #62

They are popular rifles, period. Also, only +/- 20% of gun owners hunt friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #84

Popular they may be. Popular for hunting they are not. Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #88

The sketchy data that is available supports you Kaleva Feb 2018 #113

Actually that data seems to suggest that about 1 in 3 hunter use a MSR like a AR-15.. EX500rider Feb 2018 #129

I think you are in error Kaleva Feb 2018 #136

No, it really isn't dishonest to say it Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #179

I went hog hunting with a buddy.. 5'ish years ago. 5.56 landed a freezer full for him. X_Digger Feb 2018 #54

I first used a .308 variant two years ago on a mulie hunt. Im seeing more ARs in the field... Marengo Feb 2018 #131

Poorer guys? Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #178

Savage rifles are cheaper guns Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #180

You are part of the problem, then. alarimer Feb 2018 #95

This is exactly the kind of nonsense that causes us to lose this argument Drahthaardogs Feb 2018 #140

Quite the subthread.Question for all of you: What's the best weapon for bringing down 6-18 y.o.kids? Hekate Feb 2018 #165

Benadryl Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #183

Soldiers in a combat zone need one Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #5

Which military issues AR15s to soldiers? aikoaiko Feb 2018 #7

Any semi-automatic rifle could kill as easily nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #6

I own them for recreation and self-defense aikoaiko Feb 2018 #9

Self defense? From what? nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #11

Someone(s) who intend me or my family harm. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #22

lol , this explains a lot JI7 Feb 2018 #28

I'm happy to provide you information. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #30

Must of us here dont want gun information. Some of us here were in Vietnam wasupaloopa Feb 2018 #36

I do give a shit about gun violence. Adrahil Feb 2018 #44

The doctrinaire don't want facts, they want to be reassured that their beliefs are true friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #83

I'm all ears. phylny Feb 2018 #92

Personally, I think we need to come at it from the magazine direction. Adrahil Feb 2018 #96

Great, thoughtful response. n/t phylny Feb 2018 #101

+1 Kaleva Feb 2018 #114

Welcome to DU. We discuss things here. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #68

I have been here since 2001 with different names. I have been through the wasupaloopa Feb 2018 #102

I've seen the progun side propose solutions aikoaiko Feb 2018 #118

Never how to reduce the number of guns in this country. Nothing about getting rid of the control the wasupaloopa Feb 2018 #123

Well thereyou go. One can be anti-gun violence without being anti-gun. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #154

Those are not solutions just more obfuscation wasupaloopa Feb 2018 #163

We are not going to outlaw all firearms. TomSlick Feb 2018 #164

Hi, upaloopa Hekate Feb 2018 #166

+1000. Thank you. Fla Dem Feb 2018 #171

Have a lot of enemies do you? Heartstrings Feb 2018 #39

You're free to depend on the beneficience of criminals in your house. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #67

A great guard dog is my deterrent Heartstrings Feb 2018 #69

Sturdy locks, outdoor lighting, the list goes on and on Major Nikon Feb 2018 #75

This! nt Heartstrings Feb 2018 #87

FFS do you people love your guns. Act like it is self defense when it is really a hobby. nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #139

Is that what love looks like to you? aikoaiko Feb 2018 #155

Idiotic. Paranoid nuts. n/t USALiberal Feb 2018 #156

Don't be so hard on yourself. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #157

I am not the one who thinks someone is trying to break in nightly. That is you. nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #158

I didn't say that. aikoaiko Feb 2018 #159

LOL......that stupid argument..... USALiberal Feb 2018 #160

That's pretty interesting. Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #15

I'm more of an assembler than a metal worker aikoaiko Feb 2018 #18

Ah, ok Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #19

Well there a plenty of reasons Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #12

Yep. Blow that coyote to mush! Lord! Kajun Gal Feb 2018 #186

Its the magazine capacity GulfCoast66 Feb 2018 #13

Easy one - no, of course not. TomSlick Feb 2018 #14

Youre incorrect Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #23

Sorry, I fired the M-16 for twenty-seven years in the Army. TomSlick Feb 2018 #43

You know most of your 'hunting rifles' started out as 'designed to kill people', right? X_Digger Feb 2018 #51

I will allow that rifles were first developed as weapons but TomSlick Feb 2018 #148

Well shit, there goes all your bolt-actions, they were almost universally designed for military. X_Digger Feb 2018 #152

Even if you did spend 27 years using an M16 in the Army, Sailor65x1 Feb 2018 #115

I bow to your obviously superior gun loving. TomSlick Feb 2018 #149

If it sucks at killing animals then it would suck at killing people, which is it? EX500rider Feb 2018 #130

Want to own an AR-15???? Pay the price to own one with strict regulations....... ProudMNDemocrat Feb 2018 #16

Yep. Then literacy tests/poll taxes linuxman Feb 2018 #20

Non Sequitur fleabiscuit Feb 2018 #63

Oh, are we not curtailing rights to prevent potentialy bad outcomes? linuxman Feb 2018 #65

You are really bad at analogies n/t kcr Feb 2018 #90

Um, no.. whathehell Feb 2018 #81

+100000 whathehell Feb 2018 #85

One problem with this.... Adrahil Feb 2018 #97

If I bought into the theory that private ownership of guns is a guaranteed liberty... Orsino Feb 2018 #105

To protect themselves from all the other idiots with AR-15s? Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #17

What town is this? Did ordinances exist requiring all firearms to be stored in this facility? No... Marengo Feb 2018 #119

Williamsburg, VA Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #120

Persons who were not members of the militia were permitted to possess firearms and store them... Marengo Feb 2018 #121

That would be my take of my above post. Yonnie3 Feb 2018 #122

Competitive target shooting in my family's case. Nt hack89 Feb 2018 #21

it makes them feel tough and "manly" JI7 Feb 2018 #25

K&R !!! IT'S A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION !! Designed SPECIFICALLY to kill massive amounts of humans uponit7771 Feb 2018 #26

Not a Single Reason in the World dlk Feb 2018 #27

Asked my cousin that once Heartstrings Feb 2018 #29

Same thoughtful reasoning Blecht Feb 2018 #46

His dog Buddy is dumb as a rock Heartstrings Feb 2018 #50

Why? Because they are insecure abut the size of their dicks vlyons Feb 2018 #32

Six years in USMC... battalion armorer... handled a range for NoMoreRepugs Feb 2018 #33

There's a reason military units keep weapons locked up. Orsino Feb 2018 #106

Amen Orsino.....responsible hands and fewer guns. NoMoreRepugs Feb 2018 #137

I see the NRA (Russian supported) has hijacked your thread... madinmaryland Feb 2018 #35

And the evidence for your slur of other DUers is what, exactly? friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #82

Buy liability insurance Thunderbeast Feb 2018 #38

Liability insurance doesn't cover intentional criminal acts. X_Digger Feb 2018 #56

Insurance is a creature of law jberryhill Feb 2018 #71

"And after that you are disqualified from further gun purchases, since you have been irresponsible." friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #86

Which is a totally different animal than the comment I responded to envisioned, no? X_Digger Feb 2018 #91

They don't. No one needs one. samir.g Feb 2018 #41

Seems like a fetish gun.. ResIpsa Feb 2018 #61

Just watched a hickok45 vid on youtube shooting slugs into a target at 230 yards. fleabiscuit Feb 2018 #66

Interesting. ResIpsa Feb 2018 #70

Sounds familiar. fleabiscuit Feb 2018 #73

Right on. ResIpsa Feb 2018 #74

I read that's what a reporter Cha Feb 2018 #48

To kill massive amount of humans in a short amount of time with little to no training or input ... uponit7771 Feb 2018 #53

So young men have fantasies of power and relate that to voting republican. applegrove Feb 2018 #59

To keep Obama from taking all our guns away. Wait...he didn't. Lint Head Feb 2018 #60

It was CLINTON that took all their guns... dchill Feb 2018 #77

Wait! I can't find my gun. Hillary must have snuck into my house Lint Head Feb 2018 #116

...er, sometimes you just want some fresh pulverized chicken fragments for dinner?... Ken Burch Feb 2018 #64

Think of ALL the possible reasons you could ever imagine Devil Child Feb 2018 #72

Another dreary post-mass killing thread BeyondGeography Feb 2018 #76

Because of the intensity of the orgasm you get from shooting it. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2018 #80

Are you interested in a real answer? Lee-Lee Feb 2018 #89

Questions OneGrassRoot Feb 2018 #99

Some answers: Lee-Lee Feb 2018 #107

Thanks... OneGrassRoot Feb 2018 #108

I think one thing that would help in some of that public perception Lee-Lee Feb 2018 #109

Agreed... OneGrassRoot Feb 2018 #110

There is no reason for anyone to own semi-autos. kwassa Feb 2018 #150

immaturity rownesheck Feb 2018 #93

Monsters have them. alarimer Feb 2018 #94

Does that include muzzleloaders? How about owners of archery tackle or other projectile weapons? Marengo Feb 2018 #124

Sure why not? alarimer Feb 2018 #167

Bow owners are monsters? How many are killed with muzzleloaders? Marengo Feb 2018 #173

That so? EX500rider Feb 2018 #133

Ask my cousins husband... vercetti2021 Feb 2018 #98

So you can get your picture taken old guy Feb 2018 #103

I used a few in the Army. Orsino Feb 2018 #104

You used AR's in the Army(?) AncientGeezer Feb 2018 #128

The M-16A1 and A2 were my era. Standard from Basic Training. Orsino Feb 2018 #175

To kill as many people as quickly as possible Renew Deal Feb 2018 #112

If you need an AR15 for self defense Nevernose Feb 2018 #117

Tin gods are a necessity to those who receive entertainment from killing the sentient. LanternWaste Feb 2018 #125

To make themselves feel brave and competent, and in control? guillaumeb Feb 2018 #126

I humped an M-16 around a country... jimmil Feb 2018 #127

Tiny dicks? Crunchy Frog Feb 2018 #132

Or as a friend on Fascebook posted GoneOffShore Feb 2018 #134

AR-15 this week, Molotov cocktails next week. nilesobek Feb 2018 #135

Yeah the tool is not the problem, it's the reason why that matters. EX500rider Feb 2018 #145

No one needs that crap. rockfordfile Feb 2018 #138

Then it's a good thing there's no Secretary of Need, isn't it? n/t X_Digger Feb 2018 #141

You have made it clear you need them. nt USALiberal Feb 2018 #161

Need has nothing to do with it. X_Digger Feb 2018 #162

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2018 #142

The only reason I can think of is for mass shootings of people. BigDemVoter Feb 2018 #144

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2018 #146

Well, what IS it made for then? I don't imagine it's made for duck hunting. BigDemVoter Feb 2018 #147

I have a coworker who is very liberal on many things but loves his AR-15 Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #151

Storm the beach at Normandy shenmue Feb 2018 #153

No one needs an AR15 proudp55 Feb 2018 #169

Honestly, I think it's a fetish thing/status symbol. BreweryYardRat Feb 2018 #172

it's also the marketing Locrian Feb 2018 #177

Wannabe soldiers. Fear. Bad shots. pwb Feb 2018 #184